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Estimation of stored carbon in <i>Sonneratia apetala</i> seedlings collected from Indian Sundarbans

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Title Estimation of stored carbon in Sonneratia apetala seedlings collected from Indian Sundarbans
 
Creator Mitra, Abhijit
Pal, Nabonita
Chakraborty, Arun
Mitra, Ankita
Saha, Arpita
Trivedi, Subrata
Zaman, Sufia
 
Subject Sonneratia apetala seedling
Indian Sundarbans
Stored carbon
Allometric equation
 
Description 1598-1602
Sonneratia apetala grows luxuriantly in the low saline zone of Indian Sundarbans. Considering the carbon storing potential of the species we attempted to identify the best fitting allometric equation with stored carbon per unit area by S. apetala seedlings as the dependent variable and biomasses of vegetative parts of the seedlings (leaf, stem, root and total biomass) separately as independent variables. The sampling was undertaken during monsoon 2016 in two selected stations, Chemaguri and Bali island located in the western and central sectors of the deltaic complex respectively, with contrasting salinity profile. Another purpose of this study was to observe the impact of salinity (if any) on the allometric equations of S. apetala seedlings. We observed that common allometric equation can be used (considering stem and total biomasses of the seedlings as independent variable) to predict the stored carbon per unit area in the seedlings growing in different salinity gradient.
 
Date 2016-12-14T06:45:44Z
2016-12-14T06:45:44Z
2016-11
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/38597
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.45(11) [November 2016]